Synopses & Reviews
The second part of the volume is about the course of events--ecclesiastical and secular--with regard to the papacy, the western empire (mainly Germany), Italy, France, Spain, the British Isles, Scandinavia, Hungary, Poland, the Byzantine empire and the settlements in Palestine and Syria established by the crusades and their Muslim neighbors.
Review
"It is unquestionably magisterial ... produced with truly extraordinary accuracy."
The Catholic Historical Review
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"This time Cambridge has come as close as possible to realizing the ambitious and unachieved standards of the orignal series. Ten years in the making, and subject to all the disappointments, delays, contributor drop-outs, their replacements, and intimations and demonstrations of mortality that necessarily plague such projects, these volumes stand up well to the high demands of both contemporary scholarship and readership." - The International History Review Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania
Synopsis
The fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries, perhaps the most dynamic period in the European middle ages. The volume is divided into two parts of which this, the second, deals with the course of events in Europe and its neighbours.
Synopsis
The second part of the volume is about the course of events--ecclesiastical and secular--with regard to the papacy, the western empire (mainly Germany), Italy, France, Spain, the British Isles, Scandinavia, Hungary, Poland, the Byzantine empire and the settlements in Palestine and Syria established by the crusades and their Muslim neighbors.
Synopsis
The second 'political' part of the fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History.
About the Author
David Luscombe is Research Professor of Medieval History, University of Sheffield.Jonathan Riley-Smith is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College
Table of Contents
Preface; Introduction Jonathan Riley-Smith and David Luscombe; 2. The papacy, 1024-1122 Uta-Renate Blumenthal; 3. The western empire (including the French speaking imperial lands) under the Salians Hanna Vollrath; 4. Italy in the eleventh century (a) Northern and central Italy Giovanni Tabacco (b) Southern Italy Graham Loud; 5. The kingdom of the Franks to 1108 Constance Bouchard; 6. Spain in the eleventh century Simon Barton; 7. England and Normandy, 1042-1137 Marjorie Chibnall; 8. The Byzantine empire, 1025-1118 Michael Angold; 9. Russia, the Bulgars and the southern Slavs, 1024-c. 1200 Martin Dimnik; 10. Poland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Jerzy Wyrozumski; 11. Scandinavia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Peter Sawyer; 12. Hungary in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Nora Berend; 13. The papacy, 1122-1198 I. S. Robinson; 14. The western empire, 1125-1197 Benjamin Arnold; 15. Italy in the twelfth century (a) Northern and central Italy Giovanni Tabacco (b) Norman Sicily Graham Loud; 15. Spain in the twelfth century Peter Linehan; 16. The kingdom of the Franks from Louis VI to Philip II (a) Crown and government John W. Baldwin (b) The seigneuries Michel Bur; 17. England and the Angevin dominions, 1137-1204 Thomas K. Keefe; 18. Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the twelfth century Geoffrey Barrow; 19. The Byzantine empire, 1118-1204 Paul Magdalino; 20. The Latin east, 1098-1204 Hans Mayer; 21. Abbasids, Fatimids and Seljuqs Michael Brett; 22. Zangids, Ayyubids and Seljuqs Stephen Humphreys.